Josee johnson



J. JOHNSON.

SHIELD PIN.

No. 21,966. Patented-Nov. 2, 1858.

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JOSEE JOHNSON, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

SHIELD-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 21,966, dated November 2, 1858.

T 0 all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnn JOHNSON, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shield-Pins, which may be made plain or ornamental and may be used for the various purposes of shawl, dress, diaper, or clothes pins; and I do declare that the following a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the anneX-ed drawings, making part of this specification.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent a side View showing the crossing of the coil and the pin point resting within the same. Fig. 4.- represents the pin when not shielded. Figs. 5, (3, and 7 is a front or top view of the spring and the openings in the shield point to allow the pin to pass in and out with ease and facility. Fig. 8 represents as in use a safe and reliable mariners or other clothes pin.

The nature of my invention consists in my improved method of more securely shielding the point of the pin, which is effected by forming a fold or coil on each side of the body of the pin thus forming the shieldthe fold or coil being left open on each side of the body of the pin at the point where the pin enters and passes into the center of the shield so as the more readily to allow the point to be sprung in and outto or from either side with ease and rapidity, forming a deep safe lodgment for the pin point in the line of the spring thereof without the liability to the many accidents from the slight manner in which the point has heretofore been shielded both in the American and foreign pins rendering them unsafe and but seldom brought into use,

In the accompanying drawing the shield pin is made of one piece of wire with suflicient number of coils to give it the required elasticity or spring, as at A Figs. 5, 6 and 7, to hold and strongly press the point of the pin against the inner sides of the coils and to such a depth within the coils as to prevent the possibility of escape except by a movement in a line opposite the face of the spring-at the same time the pin point (when shielded) is found resting within the circle of the coil. It may be formed by bending the wire around a mandrel of the required size in the form and manner seen in the drawings, as at B in Figs. 1, 2 and 3showing the crossing of the wire forming a lodgment for the pin point-and at 0 in Figs. 5, 6, and 7 will be seen a slight opening on either side of the main stem to allow the point of the pin to pass in and out with perfeet ease either side the main stem.

I do not claim making a shield pin of one piece of wire as that has been done before, but

What I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- Shielding the point of the pin within folds or coils when turned on both sides the main stem as described at B in Figs. 1, 2, and 8, and at c in Figs. 5, 6 and 7.

JOSEE JOHNSON. \Vitnesses R. P. WALKER, HIRAM FENN. 

